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2017-2018 Spring OMO Problem 4

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April 3, 2018

Problem Statement

Define f(x)=x1f(x) = |x-1|. Determine the number of real numbers xx such that f(f(f(f(x))))=0f(f(\cdots f(f(x))\cdots )) = 0, where there are 20182018 ff's in the equation.
Proposed by Yannick Yao